Chapter 106: Breaking Through Into the Mahayana Realm

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Thinking about the Elusive Ascension Manual got Azmodeus wondering about what the mysterious white cat was doing; however, when he saw her in the same position doing the same thing like always, he sighed a little before letting his brain churn.

It seems like that alien cat will never wake up from her cultivation, as it has become abundantly clear that she was serious when she spoke about the passing of time meaning nothing to her...

This fact made him even more curious about all the weird and unfamiliar terms that she talked about when they first met.

Maybe she's some form of Immortal? I mean, she did speak about the Immortal Realm, and even I know of the myths revolving around that nonsensical concept...

I originally thought of the Immortal Realm as nothing more than something that parents told their children to keep them entertained, but is it truly a real place...?

And if so, then how much higher is this Immortal Realm from the Starry Expanse??

Or, rather, how many planes of existence will I need to transcend before I can reach such a point...? I only know of Prometheus and the place called 'Earth' that I learned of from the MC.

After soul-searching the memories of the MC, I was also able to glean into this 'Earth' being inside of a world filled with countless stars—a world that should be far smaller than the Boundless Archipelago, which surely means that this 'Earth' is from somewhere beyond the world boundary...

Understanding that there were likely places that extended even further than the Starry Expanse got Azmodeus excited, as he looked to the roof of his Cave Abode.

His sight passed through the walls of his home as he found himself soaring through the skies at speeds bordering on incomprehensible.

After a few moments of flying, he found himself at the edge of a thin filament that contained an innumerable number of secrets, all of which were impossible for him to discern...

It was only at the level of a moderate earthquake due to the countless protective barriers lessening the impact, but it was still enough to elicit quite an overreaction from all the villagers that lived below Fallen Immortal's Mountain.

Or rather, it would be more accurate to call that 'village' a city, as over the years, it had already reached a point where it became quite the bustling spot in the province known as 'Fallen Immortal's Grove'.

This was what the descendants of the original villager's dubbed the surrounding few hundred miles.

In fact, Fallen Immortal's Grove wasn't the only province that had been erected over the years, as hundreds of them sprouted up all over the place in a tiny section of the River Serpent Sect's Outer Segment.

A plethora of commoners, nobles, and low-level cultivators in the Golden Core Realm and below had already made this part of the Outer Sect their home as they built towns, cities, and even kingdoms.

Slowly but surely, the once barren land devoid of human life was becoming a popular hotspot for all the humans in Prometheus.

And the reason for this sudden change in the attitudes everyone had about the River Serpent Sect was solely because of the existence of the Secluded Crimson Devil Lord!

Even though he had quite the intimidating title and powerful cultivators often came to pick fights with him, there were too many benefits to count from being next to the seclusion spot of the Secluded Immortal.

The first and most important of those benefits was the fact that the level of Qi that permeated Fallen Immortal's Mountain and everything around it was able to improve the cultivations of mortals, even if they didn't have the appropriate cultivation manuals!

That was just one of many boons that those who lived near the Crimson Devil Lord were capable of obtaining, and on the particular day that Azmodeus decided to attempt his breakthrough into the Early-Mahayana Realm, people from all around started speaking of 'omens', and that such tremors were very likely to be the ascension process of the Crimson Devil Lord!

And they weren't too far off in their guesses, as his overall combat power would most definitely achieve the peak stages of the Lunar Ascendancy Realm, essentially making him an ascender who decided to stay in the Mortal Realm...!

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